Rug, mat, or the like.



No. 683,574. Patented Oct. I, |90l.

J. J. PRIOR. RUG, MAT, 0R THE LIKE.

(Application led June B, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT FF 'JoIIN J. PRIOR, or NIoEToWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

ntic, MAT, 0R THE LIKE.

srEcIrIcArIoN 'amiti-part of Lettere Patent No. e8e,574,1etea october 1,1901.

' Lippiieetio'n nea Jute s, 1961. sentire. 63.709. (No model.)

To, all whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN J. PRIOR, a citizen of the United States,resdin g at Nicetown in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rugs,Mats, or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to the fabrication of a cheap, durable, andartistic fabric suitable for floor-coverings, such as rugs and mats, andin such connection it relates tothe structural arrangement of thewarp-threads and of the wefts consisting of strips of rags or strips ofribbons and to manipulation of such wefts for forming the pattern in orornamental faces of the fabricated article.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a rag orstrip weft plane fab: ric for floor-coverings, such as rugs and mats,consisting of a series of warp-threads and rag or strip wefts, thelatter forming the pattern in or ornamental faces of the fabric bychange of position of the wefts to either face in the fabricatedarticle, the warp-threads serving to separate the rag or strip wefts andalso to bind the wefts of each face of the fabric, and, second, toprovide a rag or strip two-plane weft fabric consisting of threewarp-threads and rag or strip wefts to each set or weave, the latteradapted to provide the pattern in or ornamental faces of the fabricatedarticle based upon twilled lines and the Warp-threads separating thesaid wefts and also binding the respective wefts in separate shedsthroughout into substantially a homogeneous fabric and the direction ofthe twill lines of the fabric conforming approximately to the outline ofthe pattern in or ornamental faces of the fabric, whereby both faces asto pattern are more sharply defined than such would be otherwise.

My invention, stated in general terms, consists of a rag or strip weftplane fabric when fabricated in substantially the manner hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

The nature and characteristic features of my invention will be morefully understood from the following description, taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which-- Figure lis a diagrammatic longitudinal sectional view throughy the fabric on aline with the warp-threads thereof and embody# ing features of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the fabric.

on a line with the rag or strip wefts of the fabric, and Fig. 3 is a topor plan View of a design Well adapted for producing the style or kind'offabric embodying the features of my invention, in this design eachsquare representing the intersection of a warp-thread with two rag orstrip wefts, the square containing crosses representing points orportions in the fabricating of the article where one rag or strip weftpasses over the warpthread and appearing at the upper face of the fabricand where the other weft passes under the warptthread and appearing atthe under face of the fabric, the blank squares representing points orportions in the fabricating of the article where the positions of therag or strip wefts are reversed.

Referring to the drawings, a, b, and c represent the warp-threads, and dand c the rag or strip wefts, of the fabric of each set or weave. Thesewefts may, however, be of any color. As illustrated, they are designatedby the chart as White and black, and the warp-threads as black. Inportions of the fabric in the weaving of the same and where the weftschange position in passing from one face of the fabric to the other butone weft appears in a set or Weave bound either on the top or bottom bytwo of the three warp-threads; but in the beating up of the fabricatedarticle this will' not be noticeable,

the portions referred to being indicated at f and g in Figs. 1 and 2 ofthe drawings.

In the fabricating of the article hereinbefore described as consistingof three warpthreads and two rag or strip wefts to each set or weave thewarp-threads and wefts are preferably interwoven together to produce therequired pattern in or ornamental faces of the fabric in right and lefttwill-lines and the designs or patterns being formed in series by thecontinuous twills and the direction of the twills conformingapproximately to the outlines of the patterns in or ornamental faces ofthe fabric throughout the same.

Preferably in weaving the fabric the rags or strips are separated intotwo classes of n1aterialthat is, all the light rags or strips IOO ofribbon of one class are placed in one set` and all the dark or somewhatsimilar color rags or strips in another set. A separate shuttle isemployed for each set of weft-strips or rags. One .pick is wovenalternately from each class of the wefts. The Warp-threads are drawnthrough heddles controlled by a jacquard-machine or other similarpatternforming mechanism. The rags or ribbons maybe torn or cut intostrips of approximately one-quarter to two inches in Width, more orless, according to requirement of the particular article to befabricated.

Having thus described the nature and 0bjects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A Woven fabric consisting of two sets or planes of Wefts formed offlat strips or ribbons and one set or plane of warp-threads weaving inseries of three, said wefts serving to ornament both faces of the fabricby appearing at intervals respectively on either to separate in turn theWefts and to bind both 35 faces of the fabric.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence oftwo subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN J. PRIOR.

Witnesses:

J. WALTER DoUcfLAss, THOMAS M. SMITH.

